Fireplace.



PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1906.

W. A. POSEY. FIREPLACE. APPLICATION TIL-FED MAR.3.1905.

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W. A. POSBY.

FIREPLACE.

APPLICATION PILIID MAR.3,1905.

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FIREPLACE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 1906.

Application filed March 3, 1905. Serial No. 248,290.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. POSEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fireplaces, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to fireplaces; and it has for one of its objects to provide a fireplace adapted to adequately heat the apartment in which it is located, as well as one or more other apartments, with the consumption of but a minimum amount of fuel, and also adapted to be used to advantage for OOOking purposes.

Another object of the invention is to provide a fireplace comprising sections of fireresisting material so assembled and held together that when one section is broken or otherwise impaired it may be quickly and easily removed and replaced with a new section without injury to the other sections.

Other advantageous features of the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when taken in con nection with the accompanying drawings,

" forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the fireplace constituting the present and preferred embodiment of my invention as the same appears when in a chimney. Fig. 2 is a perspeetive view of the fireplace removed and with the grate omitted. Fig. 3 is a vertical central section with the grate in position. Fig. 4 comprises perspective views of the refractory side sections of the fireplace, the

sections being shown disconnected.

Similar numerals designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings, referring to which 1 is a chimney having the usual back 2, uptake 3, and fireplace-opening 4.

5 is a mantelpiece connected to the face of the chimney, and 6 6 are metal plates fixedly connected to the face of the chimney and provided with eyes 7 and bearings 8 for purposes presently'pointed out. The eyes 7 are for the engagement of hooks 9 at the forward ends of bars 10, which have their rear ends reduced and threaded, so as to fitinto bifurcations in the ends of a back bar 11 and receive wing-nuts 12, Fig. 2.

13 13 are the side sections of refractory material of the fireplace, and 14 and 15 are the back section and top section, respectively, of similar material. The side sections, which are disposed at the inner sides of the bars 10, have their upper ends inclined and also, have their back edges rabbeted to receive and break joints with the back section 14 and their said upper ends similarly shaped to receive and break joints with the top section 15. As the side sections 13 are disposed at the inner sides of the bars 10 and the back section 14 is located in front of the bar 11 it follows that the said bars, in connection with the plates 6 and the wing-nuts 12, will securely hold the several sections of refractory material in proper relation, also that when one of the sections is broken or otherwise impaired it maybe readily removed and replaced with a new section without detriment to the other sections.

16 is a chamber of iron or other suitable material connected and fixed with respect to the plates 6 and disposed in front of the chimney-face and above the fireplace-opening. This chamber has openings 17 in its ends controlled by doors 18. The said doors have hooks 19 to engage apertured lugs 20, catches 21 to retain them in their closed position, and lugs 22 to support them in a horizontal position. The hooks 19 are removable from the lugs 20, and hence it follows that the doors 18 may be readily removed and replaced as conditions demand, it being desirable when it is desired to quickly and thoroughly heat the apartment in which the fireplace is located to leave the ends of the chamber 16 open, so as to permit air to circulate therethrough.

23 is a flue which has its mouth or receiving end disposed above the grate, presently described, and extends from such point forwardly below the chamber 16, upwardly in front of said. chamber, rearwardly above the chamber, and downwardly back of the chamber, and is connected with the uptake of the chimney. The said flue conducts the heated gases and other products of combustion from the fire to the chimney-uptake, and hence said gases and other products are utilized en route to heat the chamber 16. The upper wall of the upper stretch of said flue 23 is provided with openings 24, normally closed by lids 25, said openings being designed to receive cooking utensils when it is desired, to use my improvements for cooking purposes.

26 is the grate of the fireplace as a whole. The said grate comprises a fixed back section 27, having lugs for the passage of bolts which connect it to the refractory side sections 13,

and a rocking front section 28, having trunnions journaled in the before-mentioned bearings 8. Said section 28 is normally retained in the position shown in Fig. 3 relative to the section 27 by a gravitating fastener 30, Figs. 1 and 3; but when the fastener is rocked in the direction indicated by the arrow the section 28 may be rocked in the bearings 8 to discharge ashes, clinkers, &c., from the grate.

31 31 are pipes which lead from the outer air upwardly in front of the back refractory section 14 and to the chamber 16 and are designed to conduct fresh air to said chamber.

32 32 are pipes which lead from the chamber 16 and have for their purpose to conduct hot air to the several apartments to be heated other than that in which the fireplace is located.

33 is a damper for closing the pipes 31, and 34 a damper for closing the pipes 32, both to the chamber 16, when the heat given ofl by the fireplace is to be used for cooking or food warming purposes, and 35 is a hood disposed above the upper stretch of the flue 23. The said hood is connected by a pipe 36 with the uptake of the chimney and is well adapted to carry off. the vapors given off incident to cooking and prevent the dissemination of such vapors in the apartment where the fireplace is located.

As will be gathered from the foregoing, my novel fireplace is simple and inexpensive in construction and yet is adapted to utilize a single fire to heat a plurality of apartments in addition to that in which the fire is located and is also adapted to utilize the said fire for cooking or food-warming purposes. I prefer when the fire is to be put to the latter use to cut ofi the pipes 31 and 32 from the chamber 16 through the medium of the dampers 33 and 34; but it is obvious that at some times, as when the Weather is mild and but little heat is required, the cooking or food-warming and heating operations may be carried on simultaneously.

As will be observed by reference to Fig. 3, an open space 37 is provided below the grate and in communication with the uptake of the chimney. This space is designed to assure dust, fine ashes, &c., passing up the chimney, and it obviously lessens the liability of such dust and ashes escaping into the apartment where the fire is located.

When it is desired to use my improvements to heat but one apartment and for cooking and food-warming purposes in said apartment, the pipes 31 and 32 may be omitted without involving departure from the scope of my invention.

I have specifically described the construction and relative arrangement of the parts included in the present embodiment of my invention in order to impart a full, clear, and exact understanding of the embodiment. I do not desire, however, to be understood as confining myself to such specific construction and relative arrangement of parts, as such changes or modifications may be made in practice as fairly fall within the scope of my invention as claimed.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent and claim is 1. A fireplace comprising a grate, an uptake, a chamber located above and in front of the grate, and a flue arranged to receive heated gases and other products of combustion from a fire in the grate and extendingforwardly at the bottom of the chamber, upwardly in front of the chamber, rearwardly above the chamber, and downwardly at the back of the chamber, and discharging into the uptake.

2. A fireplace comprising a grate, an uptake, a chamber located above and in front of the grate and having doors at its ends, whereby it may be opened for the circulation of air therethrough, and a flue arranged to receive heated gases and other products of combustion from a fire in the grate and extending forwardly at the bottom of the chamber,'up- Wardly in front of the chamber, rearwardly above the chamber, and downwardly at the back of the chamber, and discharging into the uptake.

3. A fireplace comprising a grate, an uptake, a chamber located above and in front of the grate, a flue arranged to receive heated gases and other products of combustion from a fire in the grate and extending forwardly at the bottom of the chamber, upwardly in front of the chamber, rearwardly above the chamber, and downwardlyat the back of the chamber, and discharging into the uptake, one or more pipes leading from a source of fresh-air supply upwardly at the back of the grate and to the chamber, means for controlling communication between the same and the chamber, one or more pipes for conducting heated air from the chamber, means for controlling communication between the chamber and the latter pipe or pipes.

4. A fireplace comprising a grate, an uptake, a chamber located above and in front of the "grate, a flue arranged to receive heated gases and other products of combustion from a fir'e in the grate and extending forwardly at the bottom of the chamber, upwardly in front of the chamber, rearwardly above the chamber, and downwardly at the back of the chamber, and dischargin into the uptake, one or more pipes leading om a source of fresh-air supply upwardly at the back of the grate and to the chamber, means for controlling communication between the same and the chamber, one or more pipes for conducting heated air from the chamber, means for controlling communication between the chamber and the latter pipe or pipes, and a passage, below the te, connecting the fireplace and the upta e.

5. A fireplace, comprising metallic face- I In testimony whereof I a'ffix my signature 1pglzttlias priovided With apirtuged lugs, side, inpresence of two Witnesses.

ac anc to sections, 0 re actor material, metallic side bars having hooks e i lgaging WILLIAM POSEY' 5 the lugs of the face-plates, a metallic back bar, and means cletachably connecting the side and back bars.

Witnesses:

C. D. MADnoX, S. E. BOMAR. 

